Our Gold Leaf Calculator.

Its math and we will explain how it works. If you are not interested in the math skip to the calculators below. Make sure you read the facts below on how to use the calculator.

Square feet of a wall, how to find it? You will need to measure the wall and then take the height multiplied by length to find the total square feet. Our calculator will not figure a whole room to do this you will need to add the lengths of the walls together and then multiply this by the height of the room.
Example: a room 8 feet X 12 feet and ceiling at 8 feet high (wall length of 8 feet + 12 feet + 8 feet + 12 feet = 40 feet length)x height of 8 feet = total square feet of room 320.

Important, you still don’t have the complete picture. You don’t want to include any open space in the room (windows, doors, etc). A typical door including the jam can add up to about 20 square feet. So this will need to be removed this to end up with the correct total of gold leaf needed.

How do we figure the number of books of leaf needed? Multiply the size of the leaf (see below for leaf size). Next multiply that number by 25 leaves in a book. Last divide total by 144” square inches to get the total square feet.

You will want to include a waste allowance and this will depend on your skills and the surface you are applying leaf to. A good rule is 10% plus. You will never want to have applied your size (gold leaf adhesive) started gilding and find out you are short a few leaves. So remember Murphy’s Law and plan for it. It will be better to have leaf left over for the next project then to be short on the current one.

And here comes the disclaimer – This calculator is a tool for estimating books of leaf. In any estimate there is always a plus X factor. “Plus X” is everything that was not included and anything forgotten. Please use this calculator carefully.

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Leaf Calculator - This calculator will help you figure out how many books of leaf are needed.